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Great Falls tribune., 1887-08-13

the fire there was not a drop of water and
only some fifty able-bodied men who had
still presence OF mind and nerve enough
to do their duty. The only light was the
light of the burning bridge and with so
much of its aid the fifty men went to
work Il, snbdne the flames. For four
hours they fought like tieuds, and for four
hours the victory hung in the balance.
Earth was the only weapon with which
the fire could be fought. so an attempt was
made to put it out There was no pick or
shovel to dig it up, no basket or barrel to
carry it in, so desperately they dug their
fingers into the earth, which a long drouth
had baked as hard as stone. They heaped
the precious handfuls, thus hardly won,
upon the encroaching flames, and with
this earth, dug handful by handful, they
Kept back the fire, for while this was 60
ing ON, other brave men crept underneath
the wrecked cars, beneath the fire and
beat down the wooden bars which held
pieces of boards. Sometimes their hands
beat back the flames when they flashed
along the side of some unfortunate person
who was pinned down by beam and it
looked as though his death by fire was
certain. While the fight was thus going
on the ears OF the workers were filled
with the groans of dying men, the anguish
ed enrreaties of those whose death SEEM
ed certain unless the terrible blaze could
be extinguished, the cries Of those too
badly hurt TO care in what manner the end
We're brought about so only. it should be
quick. SO the brave men dug up the
earth with their hands, reckless of the
blood streaming out from broken finger
nails. and heaping it up in little mounds,
while all the time came the heartrending
cry for Gods sake, don't let us burn to
death Finally the victory was won. The
flames were put out after four hours Of
endeavor and as the last spark died away
light came up in the east and dawn
came upon scene OF noffof. Nnlle
| the fight had been going on men had been
dying, and there were not SO many wound
ed people to take out OF the wreck as
| there had been four hours before. But
in the meantime the country had been
aroused and help had come from Chats
worth, Forest and Piper City. As the
dead were Il id alongside of each other
ont in the corn-field NEE were ready
to take them into Chatsworth, while some
Of the wounded were carried to Piper
City. Over one hundred and eighty
bodies were in the awful pit of the dead,
while the wounded numbered four times
that number The full number of dead
| cannot be told for days.
Great Falls tribune., 1887-08-13
ALONG THE LINE.
The Graders and Tunnel Builders
Busy from Fort Benton to the
Great Silver Camp.

BUTTE, August 10.-Col. j. t. Dodge,
chief engineer of the Montana Central
railway, came over from Helena Monday
morning to consult with resident engineer
n. c. Ray in regard to the plans of the
road in the vicinity of Butte. He says
the Manitoba is keeping up its rapid run
in this direction, and is fully able to
maintain its established record of 100
miles of tracklaying every month. This
will bring the road into Helena about the
the middle of October, and to Butte by
MAY next. The big tunnel near Wickes
is now in near four hundred feet and rap
id progress is being made. In fact all the
contractors on the Montana Central are
making favorable progress with their
work.
In reference to the Butte and Anacon-
da branch of the Montana Central. Mr.
Dodge said that was still in the future.
The company has not vet decided wheth-
er to build it or not. The plan is not be-
ing considered just at present and Mr..
Dodge could not say whether the company
intended to consider it or not. The Phil
ipsburg branch from Anaconda is in the
sane condition and nobody knows at pre-
sent just what will be done. There is
nothing new in regard to the right-of-way
through the Silver Bow canyon, which
was disputed by the Union Pacific COM
pany. The straightening of the Montana
Union track in the canyon has interfered
with the Montana Central right-of of-Way for
about four miles.
Great Falls tribune., 1887-08-13
Gone Aloft.

On Wednesday evening, iaborer who
has been carrying on the Clark rancho,
near Righwood, On shares, committed sui
eide by taking stryshnine. The coroner
intended to hold an inquest yesterday.
No cause is known for the rash act Fur
inquiry shows that the name of the man
who committed suicide is Edward Rodder-
man. lie was originally from St. Louis.
but had been at Highwood for about a
year. He had been i'll for week or two
and walked into Fort Benton to get some
medicine as he said. What he obtained
was stryehnine which he took Wednesday
while in tent not far from Clarke ranch.
There was very stringent law passed
last winter in regard to selling poisons,
which druggists should comply with to
the letter. This affair suggests that the
utmost precaution should be taken to as
certain the purpose for which the poison
is to be used.
Great Falls tribune., 1887-08-13
MONTANA NEWS.

Daniel Sully, the comedian, is amusing
Helena this week.
The Methodist camp-meeting at Stuart
will end on Monday next.
One hundred tons of rails are coming
to Butte for the Street railroad.
Warren C. Gillette of the Dearborn's
wooi-clip was $4,000 pounds this year.
George B Foote of Helena has become
member of the American institute of
mining engineers.
Kootenia Indians are chasing deer with
dogs in the upper lake in the Flathead
reservation. The Kotenias drive the deer
into Canada and capture them, all of which
is against Montana.law.
Great Falls tribune., 1887-08-13
The Alleged Dynamifer.

New York, August s...Down with
the English fag!' .Hurrah for the stars
and stripes!n shouted Thomas j. Mooney,
the incendiary who tried to fire the steam
er Queen, as he waved his ha. this morn
ing in the Jefferson Market court. He
had been brought there and placed among
the audience to see if he would be fden-
titled by Robert Sinclair, the eolored
steward of the steamer Guyandotte of the
Old Dominion line, as the dynalniter who
caused the explosion and injury, some
time ago, to that vessel. Sinclair, how
ever, failed to recognize Mooney, and the
latter was again returned to the pen.
Great Falls tribune., 1887-08-13
Noted on the Way.

Mr.. Rolfe who returned from Fort Ben
ton last evening says that he found the
route from there to this city full of grad
ers. He expects that the grading will be
completed to this city by the end of the
month. He heard that the track-layers
are making steady progress and gaining
fast on the graders There are great
many people on their way to Great Falls
from different places. He says that times
are lively in Benton ths. the saloons are
in full blast: that the merchants are pros
porous and that real estate is changing
hands quickly. Graders have been sent
out toeomplete the Belt creek ditch which
will irrigate large tract of land. This is
a Fort Benton enterprise in which Judge
Tattan, Mr.. Peck and others are interest
ad
Great Falls tribune., 1887-08-13
4 Heavy Rain Storm.

MILWAUKEE, August II Tuesday
nights storm was pretty general through
out the northwest, according to reports
received at railway offices and govern
ment signal stations in Milwaukee, Green
Bay and ST. Paul The rainfall was 4
quarter Of an inch in La Crosse, Wiseon-
sin. Reports from the lumber districts OF
south Wisconsin, where forest fires are
raging, are to the effect that the rain has
checked the progress of the flames ard
given relief for the time being The wind
storm which accompanied the rain was
very violent and much damage resulted
to hay-stacks, barnes, cattle and orchards.
Great Falls tribune., 1887-08-13
Racing at Butte.

BUTTE, August 1o.-This the second
day of the races, opened well. The
weather being fine and the track in good
condition. The attendance was large.
The greatest interest centered in the 2:29
trot between Bakers Rolla, Marcus Days
Senatnrsand Raymand' S Carrie Belle This
was regarded as contest between Helena
and Butte. In the first heat, Rolla led BY
Great Falls tribune., 1887-08-13
Steamboat Disabled.

CoAI. Banks, August 1O.-The steamer
General Terry left here this morning. and
when about six miles out she busted q
cylinder and returned here where she is
now unloading Upon finishing she viii
return TO Bismarck for repairs.
Great Falls tribune., 1887-08-13
They Get Married ANYHOW.

In this correspondence last week an
amusing story was told of the difficulty
which q certain official experienced in
trying to decipher his own handwriting.
Great Falls tribune., 1887-08-13
Memphis on the List.

WASHINGTON, August 1.-THE presi-
dent to-day apprised Senator Harris that
he would visit Memphis during his west
ern and southern trip this fall.
Great Falls tribune., 1887-08-13

GRoANs OF THE DYING.
Instantly the air was filed with the cries
of the wounded and the skrieks of those
about to die. The groans of men, the
screams Of women, united to make an ap-
palIing scene and above all could be heard
the agonizing cries ofIittle children. In
some instances they lay pinned along side
of their dead parents, and there was
another terrible danger get to be met.
The bridge was still burning, and the
wrecked cars were lying around in the
fereeav burning emhers. Everywhere in
the wreck were wounded and unhurt
men. women and children. whose lives
could be saved If they could be gotten out,
but whose death in. a most horrible form
was most certain if the twisted wood of
the broken cars caught fire, and to fight
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-14

houses and expsdients OF all kinda were not
only endurable. but all that could be ex-
pected. That day has long since passed.
None OF Butte's citizens will be prepared to
admit that any limit can be placed upon
the continuance of her resources, but will
assert that they are practically %inexhaust-
ible. They can point to the fact that
shrewd men OF business sagacity have al
ready putthousands Of dollars into street
railroad and contemplate the expenditure
OF additional thousands in the most costly
system in vogue-a cable road. They
can point to the fact that her
railroad facilities will be increased by two
additional outlets next year. They can
point to he fact that capitalists Of ma.
tional renOw are spending hun
dreds OF thousands OF dollars in
the completion Of one of the
greatest, If not the greatest smelter, in the
world, which will be supplied by tho mines
belonging to one corporation, and that an
other which now owns the richest noun
tain of copper ore in the country will soon
set about tine erection of a plant to treat
its ore commensurate with it's capacity of
output. THESE are resources Of themselves
unequalled by any other city in the Terri
tory, far outweighing those of Helena, con-
shutting within themselves a cause OF be-
ing for a city twice the size OF Butte. Real.
izing the value of all this snd more be-
sides, the citizens OF Butte can prepare
with equanimity to enter upon another era
next spring when, with enlarged limits and
increased values OF property. they will be
ready to incur the expenses Of a munich
pality worthy to claim pre-eminence in the
Territory.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-14

Mr.. James w. Hyatt. who succeeds MI.
Jordan IA United States Treasurer. as
snmed the duties OF that Office in the last
week OF May. 1887. Mr.. Hyatt was born
brought up and educated in Norwa'k'
Cam. from which place no went to New
York and worked his way up to the position
O: cashier of the banking house OF Legrand
B. Lockwood & Co., a position which ne
held at the time when that firm was at the
zenith OF it's power and prosperity. IN
1874 Mr.. Hyatt returned to NorwaIk and
took charge OF the Norwalk Horse Railway
Company as its Presi lent and Manager:
He has,since been Director and Presldtntof
the Daubury g. Norwalk Railroad Com
naoy: Director and Vice President of the
National Bank OF Norwalk; twice a member
of the House of Representatives, and once q
member of the Connecticut State Senate.
For several successive years he was warden
OF the borough OF Norwalk, and for ten
years Bank Commissioner OF Connecticut,
and in January, 1887. was appointed ny
COMPTROLLER Trenholm National Bank Ex-
ami, err for Connecticut and Rhode Island.
As warden he WAS repeatedly elected in
Norwalk, and as Bank Examiner he has
again and again been appointed by Repuh-
lean Governors. Mr.. Hyatt was originally
a Republican,, hut went over to the De.
| mocracy in 1872 at the time OF the Greeley
movement. Mr.. Hyatt, it will be seen. is
fully qualified by business experience Tor
the position to which he has been ap-
pointed. His salary as Treasurer OF the
United States is Sc, 900. and he is required
| 70 furnish bonds as security to the amount
OF $50, 900. On December 6 President
Cleveland sent in his name to the Senate OF
the United States to succeed Mr.. Jordon.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-14
PREPARE FOR The OUTLAY.

On Monday, January 9, the citizens OF
Helena will vote o. q proposition to incur
$16O,0O0 Indebtedness TO construct sewers,
grade streets and undertake other public
improvements. This is what Butte will
have to look forward to also one OF these
days, but first her citizens will have to re-
incorporate under q moro liberal charter
and enlarge her boundaries. With the rise
n value Of property here certain to ensue
from the enlargement Of tho railroad facili-
ties promised Butte in this near future, the
expense OF undertaking those works Of
municipal improvement can be contenn-
plated without apprehension by the tax.
payers. Every dollar put into municipal
improvemsnt-sewsrs, street grading and
paving-rsturns iourfold to tho taxpayer
in the enhanced value OF his property. TIE
permanency OF Butte as an almost mex.
haustible producer most abundantly Of
metal that ia now in demand beyond res-
sibi!ity Of supply. and ito eminent fitness
by position to become the leading iobbinq
point OF Montana, conspire to urge the 3D.
ditioI OF those features Of municipal pro-
gress that make p city healthy and q com.
Portable place OF residence. So long as
Butte WAS only . mining camp where mon
catne to work in the mines surrounding her
in q transitoIv ~iaaaion-here to-day, away
to.no-row-and when the great body OF
her principal output was unknown or only
slightly sesa asd, them ~ temporary
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-14
ANOTHER TRAIN ROBBERY.
Three Masked Men Stop . Train In
Arkansas.
They Rob the Express Car But Spare
Passengers.
The Ground Caves About the HeeIa En-
CINE Shaft.
The Harper Case Closed and Given to
the Jury.
Cholera Quarantine Still Necessary
Against Italy.

LITTLE Rock, Ark. December 1O.-Infor-
nation has been received here that the
North5ound train on the st. Louis. Arkan-
sas & Texas road was stopped last night
near Texarkana by three masked men.
They took everything OF value from the OK
press car and relieved all the passengers OF
their money and valuables. The postal
clerk n the mail car fired several shots at
them with a rifle and q volley vas returned.
No harm was done. The robbers did not
modest the mail. Governor Hughes and the
railroad officials have offered rewards Tor
the apprehension OF the men. So far the
robbers have escaped, although their
capture is hourly expected. Late tonight
officers were pursuing them with blood
hounds and securing the country in every
direction. Later developments show that
no attempt was made to rob the passen-
ger coaches.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-14

Hon. Isaac II. Maynard, whose name
was sent to the senate on December 6 by
President Cleveland, was appointed as As
sistant Secretary OF the Treasury in place
OF Mr.. Fairchild in april, 1887. Isaac Nor
ton Maynard was born at Bovina. Della
ware Co N. Y. April 8. 1888, and comes
OF good Scotch English stock. His grand
father was q native of Rye. Weschester
Co., N. V. and a soldier 10 the war Of the
Revolution. He removed to Delaware
C unity and founded the town of Bovina.
Young Maynard attended school in that
town and subsequently went to the
Methodist Seminary in the neighboring
town OF Stamford. where he studied and
prepared himself for college. In September,
1858. he entered Amherst and took Il full
classical course, graduating the validictor-
ian OF bis class il 1861. He began the
study OF law in the office OF Hon. W. Muir
ray at Delhi. where be remained until No
vember, 1863, when he was admitted 10
the bar in Binghamton, n. Y. For two
years he practised at Delhi. in partnership
with S. H. White. In June. 1865, he re-
moved to Stamford, where he has since re-
sided. Here he formed a law partnership
with F. + Gilbert which lasted until June
L. 1878. Mr.. Maynard was elected a men,
Der OF the Board OF Supervisors If SIAM
IDFu III 1000 ana was re-ciecCeG il lS ~.
He wa also made mayors and held the post
for ten consecutive years. In November.
1875, he was elected to the State Assembly
and in 1876 was reelected. He served on
the committees OF Ap~portionment, Privi-
leges and Elections. also on the Committee
OF Ways and Means. III 1877 he was made
County Judge and Surrogate Of Delaware
County for a term OF eight years. In 1883
he was nominated for Secretary of State
but his antipathy to the indiscriminate
vending OF liquors caused the powerful
whisky ring" in the State to make a car.
vass against him, and this defeated hi n,
although all the other candidates on Lis
ticket were succ' ssFul. He Was made First
Deputy Acknowledgement in 1883, and re-
linquished this position to become Second
Comptroller Of the United States Treasury
under Dsni~l II aiming. Since the advent
OF Judge Maynard in the department he
has made hosts OF friends. Some years
ago he married Miss Margaret NJ. Marvine.
daughter OF Charles Marvin pres dent Of
the Delaware Natl nal Bank oil Delhi.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-14
A RAvING MANIAC.
AChtnaman Ruined by q White Mistress
Tries to XIII Two Women,

Philadelphia special: Lee Han Yah, q
naturalizsd Chinaman, tried to kill two
white women to day. Yah is thirty-six
years old, and has been in America fifteen
years. He made money in the laundry
business, and was worth IS, 900 a year
ago. He then became enamored of a white
oma of doubtful character, who prom
ised 10 marry him, but who wheedled him
out OF money, dresses and iewelry. She
ruined him finally. He met her two weeks
ago with a white man, then called at her
boarding house and demanded an explana-
ton. The white man put him out. Han
Yah became Respondent. The fair deceiver
and another girl went to Yah's laundry,
1927 Locust street, this afternoon with u
parcel of clothirg. Yah seized a big bowie
knife, exclaiming: italian kill one woman;
Chinaman kill two" He sprang at the
women, who ran screaming. Yah pursued,
with knife uplifted, until several men
seized him. He was arrested and taken to
the station, where he became a raving
maniac and had to be bound to prevent
butting his brains out against the wall of
his cell.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-14
SENATE A
The Principal Changes-Democrats to
Get Ono More This Congress-.

The Principal Changes-Democrats to
Get Ono More This Congress-.
WASHINGTON, December 1O.-The follow.
ing are the principal changes in the chair.
manships CT the Senate committees: Pal.
mer, agriculture and forestry; Hale, cen.
sus; Chase, civil service and retrenchment:
Frye, commerce; Quay, expenses of the
several branches OF the civil service; Far
we'll, expenditures Of public money; Stock.
bridge, fisheries; Paddock. Improvement OF
the Mississippi; Hawley, military affairs;
Stewart, mines and mining; Teller, patents;
Mitchell, transportation routes to the sea-
board; Tramp Wilson OF Iowa, on revision
OF laws; Aldrich, rules; Platt, Territories;
Stanford, public buildings and grounds;
Sabin, railroads; aiscock, on Centennial
Of Constitution and discovery of America;
chandler, Indian traders; Davis, pensions;
Sawyer, p~ostoftices and postroads. Dolph
takes Harrison's place on tho committee
on foreign relations. Bowen, Mitchell and
Gray take the places of Conger, Wilson
and Malone on the committee on postofice
and postroads. Democrats received eight
minor chairmanships, being an increase of
one over last Congress. The liet has been
handed to Mr.. Beck, chairman OF the Dem
ocratic caucus, Who has called q caucus
Monday.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-14
A CONTRAST.

There may be some difference of opinion
\ whether as q rule "they do these things
| better in France" as some assert, but there
can be no difference of opinion that the
French people elect their President more
expeditiously and less expensively than we
do ours. One of the great parties in this
country has already selected q place to
hold it's nominating convention six months
from low, and the election will not be held
for nearly five months later. During the
interval, party feeling will gradually APP
proach fever heat, business be disturbed
and thousands OF dollars will be placed
'swhere it will do the most good'-in the
hands of wire-pullers of high and low degree.
The sums of money subscribed and ex.
pended in this way are enormous, and the
funds are scattered in a thousand different
channels. As an example OF how lavishly
politicians will subscribe for the attain.
ment of success for their side, the Detroit
News mentions an incident in the career Of
the new Postmaster General. which is only
one that could be cited out of hundreds.
During the last Presidential q campaign when
tho clossness OF the vote in New York City
was the problem on which everyone was
figuring, Mr.. Dickinson, who wal keenly
watching the contest at Detroit, became
ap~prehensive OF the result from his iamili-
arity with the devious methods in vogue
in the metropolis OF ~canvassing for votes.
He communicated his apprehension to
some of his friends, and together they
made up a purse of $4,000, with which
he left for New York on the eve Of election.
He went directly to Roscoe Conkling and re-
tanned him as counsel for Cleveland. The
fee wa enormous, but the news that the
most astute lawyer in New York and
Blaine's bitterest foe was carefully scruti-
nizipg the inspectors aud the ballot-boxes
il Cleveland's interest startled every one
and probably prevented a good many Re-
publican schemes being Matched. Cleve-
land was elected by a close margin, and
thousands OF dollars changed hands v e
the result. How different from the French
election a week ago yesterday. President
Grevy resigned IN Friday and on Satur-
day the Assembly elected his successor on
tho second ballot. 1t was accomplished by
. patriotic act OF sslfabuegation on the
part OF the nan whom the %populace de-
nounced as a traitor. It showed that as a
Republic France is worthy OF the name. It
was q triumph OF those principles OF law
and order on which the United States prides
itself al being a conspicuous example to the
world. France is surrounded by monarch.
les and her struggles to preserv, the Repub.
lie are watched ksenly by her neighbors who
are jealous OF the continuance of the most
perfect form Of government on earth in
close contrast with their own and the sue.
cess that has accompanied it thus far.
That the French election was SO orderly
and the result so peacefully accepted is
testimony of the excellence of her Constitu-
tion.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-14

A FRIEND Of Mr.. Blaine's said . tow days
sso that he has three times actively exerted
himself to procure the Observation-Disclosures
ton, but that he feels II hs runs again tho
nomination must come to him without q
struggle. Mr.. Blaine has already thus
early in the game shown that hs il not
sneumbsred with any such modesty. He
may be depended upon to be heard from
in many moro intsrvisws before he returns
to the country in JHns next.